by Shea Wilt | Oct 19, 2023 | Animal Tales for Kids, Camouflage
What was your last Halloween costume? What will your next costume be? Are you hungry? Well, you might think about being more practical with your costume, maybe keep it on all year and make sure it matches your food so it doesn’t see you coming. What, you know a better...
by Shea Wilt | Oct 17, 2023 | Camouflage
Some of you may have had a scary encounter with a wasp, and if you’re reading this, you got the good end of the deal. There are many different types of wasp, and many types of bullying in the animal kingdom. The Cuckoo Wasp and its antics, however, are a unique brand...
by Alem Duratovic | Oct 25, 2022 | Camouflage
Want to become a Hide n Seek Champion? These color polymorphic lizards know what it’s like to be one. On National Geographic, you will see lizards and chameleons changing their colors. Not many animals can change colors in their...
by Sofia Elizarraras | Oct 22, 2020 | Camouflage
Humans have negatively impacted the world’s oceans for centuries, which becomes startlingly evident when studying marine life forms. You have probably seen this already in the form of sad sea turtle photos with plastic soda rings around their neck, or maybe seals...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Camouflage
By Ben Berejka ’20 When picturing nocturnal predators, most people would envision darkly colored and cryptic monsters creeping through the shadows, but a recent study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution describes the opposite. Researchers observed that...
by 2019 Class | Aug 17, 2020 | Camouflage
Julia Borys ’22 Coloration within organisms, which allows for camouflage, is a common example of natural selection. This mechanism increases an organisms’ ability to avoid being seen by predators. While camouflaging is ubiquitous in natural selection,...
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